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Newsboy Camp: 1910
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 07/01/2007 - 2:07am.
Newsboy Camp circa 1910. Location not specified. View full size. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection.
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A Day at the Beach: 1910
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 06/30/2007 - 2:14am.
July 26, 1910. Card game in tent city on the beach at Rockaway, Queens. View full size. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection.
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Rockaway Bungalows: 1910
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 06/30/2007 - 2:14am.
Vacation bungalow colony at Rockaway, Queens, c. 1910. View full size. George Grantham Bain Collection. Note "front yards" of sand decorated with seashells.
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The Sands of Time: 1910
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 06/30/2007 - 2:14am.
More of the Rockaway bungalow colony in 1910. View full size. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection.
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Tent City: 1910
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 06/30/2007 - 2:13am.
July 26, 1910. Tent city on the beach at Rockaway, Queens. View full size. 5x7 glass plate negative, George Grantham Bain Collection.
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Coney Island: 1911
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 06/30/2007 - 2:12am.
May 27, 1911. Aftermath of the Dreamland amusement park fire at Coney Island. View full size. George Grantham Bain Collection. Note the ancient streetlamp.
Nanty Glo Slagger: 1937
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 06/29/2007 - 11:34pm.
1937. Salvaging coal from the slag heap at Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania. Coal pickers get 10 cents for each hundred-pound sack or two dollars a ton. One man can make from 10 to 20 sacks a day. View full size. Photograph by Ben Shahn.
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